Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1887-06-30
LABOR AND LABoRERs,
News and Notes of Interes, !.
Both Employer and
Employed.
Continued Prosperity in the vsrioa
Industries of the Country

4 Uan. &
one; the brassworkers have asked for o,..
the ironworkers have organized for on..
and the coopers, painters, and decora,o,,
insist on separate control. A score Of o,h.,
crafts are asking for separate room inn,
great Order where they can talk thine.
over. The experiments already made b,,.
| shown that there is nothing in the mors'
| ment of disintegrating character. but ib,,
in reality this step is q cementing one.
. New ENGLAND textile manufacture,.
are generally improving their capacity md
| putting in better machinery 10 decrease
cost. A New Hampshire firm has ordersS
a cargo of wool from San Francisco aropns
Cape Horn on account of high freipha
| The Pepperell Mill, in Maine, has ind
divided half million dollars in DIVIDENDS
and has million dollars left
FIvErational labor unions have lust held
their annual sessions-the printers n
Buffalo, the shoemakers at Brockton, ,ba
iron-workers at Pittsburg, and the mu.
chinery workers and miners at Cincinnati,
There were 200, ,0O0 shoemakers said to be
represented through $50 delegates a,
Brockton. The iron-workers had lSO
delegates.
FoRT WORTH, Texas, is to be made
wool and sheep depot with immense stock
yards and securing establishments. Ii
now costs S1.43 10 pay the freight on 100
pounds of grease and dirt, and this is 10 bs
saved by the securing establishment,
Fort Worth says that she will vet rival
Philadelphia as a wool center.
FouR railroads are now being builtin
Georgia to center ut Atlanta. II will then
be the greatest railroad center in the South.
These roads will run through coal, lumber,
and agricultural sections, and already syn-
dicates are operating along the projected
lines, securing control OF the most desira.
BILE lands.
THE New York silversmiths have surren.
dered and gone to work. Nearly all the
cabinet, makers shops of New York have
established the nine-hour system. new
organ (mentbly) has been established in
New York to represent the National Fed
Grafton. The Furriers' Union voted S45 10
the Chicago anarchists.
A LONDON paper says there is not one
corner of Europe where American small.
cost hardware is not for sale. Krupp, Of
Germany; Armstrong, of England, and
Hotchkiss, of France, with all their vast
resources are unable to produce n monkey
or rew-bar wrench equal to the American
wrerches.
THE builders in The small towns all over
the country are reporting an increasing
demand for small houses. The building
and loan association fever is spreading in
the West. The outflow of money from
sluggish financial localities in the East is
stimulating enterprise in q great many
small channels.
WESTERN cities and towns are deyeI
oping their manufacturing capabilities
rapidly. Denver, Col, is becoming an
Important manufacturing center, and will
produce 3c,OO0,000 worth of products this
year. Eastern manufacturers are pioneer
ing over the West seeking opportunities.
TIE London papers are complaining that
as fast MS British workmen leave their
shores the gap is filed up with German
workmen and workmen from Russia. They
don't want the pauper labor of the CONT
nent shot" there. The remedy is in the
highest degree obscure.
THE question of employers right to en-
ploy non union labor will not be surren-
dered without bitter struggle. Boston
building employers have been placing them
selves IN position to open the fight. The
workmen, in anticipation of trouble, are
strengthening their lines.
EASTERN farmers and well-to-do me-
chanics are lending, through agencies,
much of their spare cash on Western mort.
cages. This exchange ought to have been
low rates of interest East and exceptionally
high rates in the West.
ONE we'll known make of boiler has been
sold 70 .he extent of 122,000 horse power
in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jer-
sey. Great ingenuity and study are being
centercd on boiler making, and marked
Improvements have been completed within
q few months.
AN enthusiastic Westener, who writes as
though he were posted, says 5O,OO0,OO0
could be safely invested in the sugar.
making and growing industry in the South,
and that there are excellent opportunities
for ]ute and ramie manufacturing.
The Northern investors in Southern
piS-iron plants are greatly encouraged by
the active demand in Western markets for
the entire product OF furnaces. This will
lead to further extension of capacity. Coke
is scarce.
AT Dallas, Texas, half million dollar
cotton mill is to be built. The Roanoke
Cotton Mills, Va, are to have n capital of
$250,000. another cotton mill is to be
started at Columbia, S. c., with capital
of 100000.
THE question Of cooperation is not
favorably considered in the knights as
semblies, and the land theories of George,
while fayorably regarded at distance, are
not considered good matters to advance
wages with.
A GREAT many Philadelphia made boil
ers are finding their way into Eastern mills
and factories. -Four 125 horse power safety
boilers have just been put in at East Ware
ham, Mass.
The Kansas City carpenters are looking
long way ahead. They announce that
they won't work more than eight hours
after next June, and want 35 cents an hour.
The miners are earnestly endeavoring TO
avert strikes in the future, and, if met with
half the cando- they feel, measures will be
devised by which justice can be done.
The expressed opinion of labor dele
gates ut the various trade conventions is
that the improving condition Of things
justities the advances they desire to have
made.
FIGURING and grist mills employ 3s per
cent. Of all the water-power used; saw
mills, % per cent; cotton mills, IL; paper.
mills, z; and woolen- mills, 4l.
The Pottsville (Pa.) silk-mill will en-
ploy from 600 to 1000 hands, and the
building. which will be $50 feet in length,
Will, including machinery, cost $500, coo.
The Western lumber manufacturers are
trying to demonstrate that prices will be
higher next fall, but buyers are not acting
on that supposition.
LAST year the South made $40, 1000
out of 2O,000,00Q gallons of cotton seed
oil, and used only one-iifth of the ayaila-
bic product.
QUITE n number of mechanics have
found employment in Kentucky and Ten
nessee during the past three months.
:, Our of the 1,o56 pudding furnaces u
Pittsburgh seventy-tive are idle, and tie
muck bar production is estimated - 9, -
tons per day.
The cotton goods manufacturers are
generally we'll sold up, and many mills
have contracts running far ahead.
ALL the machine chops of the country
are full Of orders and have excellent pros
poets for the rest Of the year.
THERE is q quiet distribution of the
Chinese population of the Pacific coast
throughout the Eastern States.